1998 EGSA Conference Book

Conference
Announcements and Reports

First summer East German Film Institute

The DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts is
sponsoring a conference this summer from 25-30 June 2001 with
the theme "Interdisciplinary Approaches to DEFA Film."
The deadline for applications to participate is 23 March 2001.
For further details, contact Brenda
Bethman or visit the DEFA
Film library web site.

12th Annual Germanic Studies Graduate Student Conference
at Yale

This conference, subtitled "The Visual Turn" will
be held in New Haven from 6-8 April 2001. For details, see the
conference
web site.

Miscellaneous News

New Reading

New Books

Heneghan, Tom, Unchained
Eagle: Germany after the Wall(New York: New York Institute
of Finance/Prentice Hall Press, 2000), an account of the decade
between the fall of the Wall and the German government's move
to Berlin.

Requests and Queries

Lois Weinthal,
Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University
of Texas at Austin, writes: "I will be in Germany this summer
for six weeks researching the relationship between architecture,
interior domestic spaces and the way politics and economics have
shaped these spaces in the former east Germany before, during
and after the Berlin Wall. I would like to ask other members
of EGSA if they know of any people they could put me in contact
with who have access or are familiar with the large Socialist
housing projects built in the 1970's such as Marzahn and Hellersdorf."